README.md

TypeScript implementation of Signify

Project Name: signify-ts

Signify - KERI Signing at the Edge

Of the five functions in a KERI agent,

1. Key generation
2. Encrypted key storage
3. Event generation
4. Event signing
5. Event Validation

Signify-TS splits off two, key generation and event signing into a TypeScript library to provide "signing at the edge". It accomplishes this by using libsodium to generate ed25519 key pairs for signing and x25519 key pairs for encrypting the private keys, next public keys and salts used to generate the private keys. The encrypted private key and salts are then stored on a remote cloud agent that never has access to the decryption keys. New key pair sets (current and next) will be generated for inception and rotation events with only the public keys and blake3 hash of the next keys made available to the agent.

The communication protocol between a Signify client and KERI agent will encode all cryptographic primitives as CESR base64 encoded strings for the initial implementation. Support for binary CESR can be added in the future.

Environment Setup

The code is built using Typescript and running code locally requires a Mac or Linux OS.

• Install Node.js

• Install dependencies:

  npm install

Typescript source files needs to be transpiled before running scripts or integration tests

• Build:

  npm run build

Unit testing

To run unit tests

npm test

Integration testing

The integration tests depends on a local instance of KERIA, vLEI-Server and Witness Demo. These are specified in the Docker Compose file. To start the dependencies, use docker compose:

docker compose up deps

If successful, it should print someting like this:

$ docker compose up deps
[+] Running 5/4
 ✔ Network signify-ts_default           Created                                           0.0s
 ✔ Container signify-ts-vlei-server-1   Created                                           0.1s
 ✔ Container signify-ts-keria-1         Created                                           0.1s
 ✔ Container signify-ts-witness-demo-1  Created                                           0.1s
 ✔ Container signify-ts-deps-1          Created                                           0.0s
Attaching to signify-ts-deps-1
signify-ts-deps-1  | Dependencies running
signify-ts-deps-1 exited with code 0

Important! The integration tests runs on the build output in dist/ directory. Make sure to run build before running the integration tests.

npm run build

Use the npm script "test:integration" to run all integration tests in sequence:

npm run test:integration

Or, use execute jest directly to run a specific integration test, for example:

npx jest examples/integration-scripts/credentials.test.ts

It is also possible to run the tests using local instances of vLEI, Keria, and witness network. Set the environment variable TEST_ENVIRONMENT to local, e.g:

TEST_ENVIRONMENT=local npx jest examples/integration-scripts/credentials.test.ts

This changes the discovery urls to use localhost instead of the hostnames inside the docker network.

Old integration scripts

To run any of the old integration scripts that has not yet been converted to an integration test. Use ts-node-esm

npx ts-node-esm examples/integration-scripts/challenge.ts

Diagrams

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